Five years ago Ghacks released a blurb about a new program that was brand new for computers. Called Workrave, the small application provided notices to keep computer users from spending too many consecutive minutes staring at the computer screen, which can lead to Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs) that can grow significant with repeated exposure. Since [...]
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Catalog Digital Images With vvvP
I started taking photos with digital cameras when they first came out, switched cameras several times since then and recently bought my fifth or so digital camera, a Canon EOS 600D. I have stored digital images taken with the cameras on my hard drives as well as on DVDs. This makes it relatively difficulty to [...]
Give Yourself The Proper Linux Privileges on Your New Machine
For many of us, the days following the fresh install of a new Linux distribution are like starting your life over. It’s a time for new beginning – new choices for programs, new configurations, new icons. You have a clean slate, and it’s time to explore the possibilities the unknown distro brings with it. Naturally, [...]
Fix Bootloaders After Dual Boot Installation
Installing a second operating system on your computer can be a great way to drastically increase the number of things you can do on it. It’s no big secret that many of the programs you can run on Windows cannot be run on any other operating system. By the same token, with the recent explosion [...]
Sync Apple Devices To Your Linux System
Experienced users of handheld products know that in order to protect your data and applications it is important to sync apps frequently with a primary machine. Unfortunately, this is often easier said than done for Linux users. While many devices are able to sync without much manipulation on your part, Apple products tend to cause [...]
How To Use ScummVM To Play Old Adventure Games
Ever since the release of Maniac Mansion on the Commodore C-64, and probably even earlier than that (Guild of Thieves for instance), I was fascinated by adventure games. You know, the click and point type of adventure games where you had to pick an action and combine that action with something or someone on the [...]
Changing Your Linux Background Automatically
Compared to Windows and Apple, some people consider Linux distributions to be the most user-friendly, personally customizable operating systems available. They enable you to adjust and tweak pretty much anything you want to. All they require is a basic understanding of the dynamic of Linux. One fun change you can make is customizing your desktop [...]
Integrate the Terminal with the Desktop On Linux
Over the years there have been all sorts of fun ways to edit one’s Linux terminal window. In addition to editing all the boring old things like text color and scroll settings, people have edited their headers, terminal behaviors, and even integrated an entire terminal window into their background. Many people are fond of that [...]
Create Flash Cards With Multi-Platform Software Cabra
Flash cards can be an effective learning technique. It is especially effective to learn vocabulary and subject matters that can be learned via a question and answer format, which is for instance true for factual information. A question, word, phrase or sentence is usually added to one side of the card, and an answer, word [...]
Text Encryption Made Easy With Scrambled Egg
As kids, we had our own secret codes and words that we used to communicate when outsiders were around. That was a basic from of cryptography. Computer users today have sophisticated tools at their disposal to encrypt messages, so that only they and designated recipients can understand those messages. Scambled Egg is an Open Source [...]
Zip Password Recovery With FCrackZip
It is possible to password protect zip files to prevent unauthorized access to the files they contain. Only problem is: If you forget the zip password, you cannot access the files either. A friend of mine recently contacted me with the problem. He had zipped important files a few years ago and used a password [...]
Network Troubleshooting Basics: The Ipconfig Command
This article is the second in a series of the basics of network troubleshooting. Last time, the ping command was demonstrated. Now the ipconfig command will be covered (the Linux/Mac ifconfig & route commands will be touched on too). While this is a basic tutorial, there are some advanced tips and topics included. The Ipconfig [...]
Universal USB Installer, Install, Run Linux From USB
I just got the replacement battery for my Acer Aspire 3810T and decided to make a clean cut. Instead of continuing to use Windows 7 as the operating system I have decided to install the latest Ubuntu on the notebook. I’m not using the device that often, actually only if I’m on holiday, and I [...]
OkaWix Update, Wikipedia, Wiki Offline Access
Many computer users use Wikipedia, or one of its sister Wiki sites as reference when they want to look something up on the Internet. They basically use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, which is fine, as long as they remember that information on the site may be incorrect due to its “everyone may edit everything” guidelines. [...]
Miro 4 Beta Released, Better Performance, More Features
I’m keeping a close eye on Miro every since the product was released as the Democracy Player back in 2006. A lot has changed since then, not only the name. The developers have pushed out the first beta of the upcoming version of Miro. Let me explain quickly what Miro is all about. Miro, in [...]
How To Scan Your Music Library For Missing Songs
If you are a music connoisseur, you may take pride in a complete music library without missing songs or meta tags. But how do you make sure that no songs are missing in your library? That every album is complete? Tools to scan a library of songs for missing tracks are rare. One application that [...]
Why no Operating System will Ever be Good Enough
The sheer volume of excitement about Windows 8 has taken me quite by surprise with more leaks than we ever saw with Vista or Windows 7 in the same time-frame. The excitement and hype easily matches that of Google’s Chrome OS in the same period of its development, even though when the operating system finally [...]
Marble, Virtual Interactive Globe
Marble has been designed to be a virtual interactive globe and world atlas that you can use to look-up information. The cross-platform application has recently been updated to version 1.1, reason enough to take a closer look at the software. The main interface that you see after installation displays a globe and several controls on [...]
Mobile Media Converter, Cross-Platform Audio, Video Conversion Software
You encounter so many different video and audio formats both on your computer and on the Internet that you often need a software to convert media to make it compatible with your preferred software or hardware media players. The sheer amount of formats available sometimes makes this a difficulty process, considering that you need to [...]
Active Edge Screen Actions in KDE 4.6
Being Linux fans, you all know that Linux offers a lot of ways to manage the desktop. One of the best ways that Linux offers for keeping your desktop organized is multiple desktops. This feature has been around since nearly the beginning of the Linux desktop. Multiple desktops (or workspaces) allow you to create a [...]